Tuesday, 10 May 2011

"I Write This Sitting In The Kitchen Sink

This has to be absolutely one of my favourite opening lines...possibly one of my favourite books in the genre...mind-you there's Catcher in the Rye and To Kill a Mocking Bird and Sophies Choice that I love too. Probably this is a coming-of-age drama that I can relate to more because the main protagonist is female....

...This is also another inducement to do some ironing before I go to work when the dappled sun is trying to seduce me into the garden...

Oh and I found the bag here when looking for nice literary related gifts...I think it's quite cool...

I first discovered 'I Capture the Castle' when reading one of Dodie Smith's biographies. It's just perfect isn't it? and Mortmain reminds me so much of my dad who was also a bit of a mad artist/inventor/writer...although it was a different era, he wasn't quite that bad, and we didn't live in a castle!...

I think this film is a really good adaptation of the book...just how I imagined it...I agree with you vmichelle, definitely delicious...

Oh! I Capture The Castle is my most favourite book of all time - I can just about recite whole chunks of it by heart, as can some of my sisters. When we first moved to London I made a special pilgrimage to Penhaglions to search out the Bluebell scent. I often think of Topaz's descriptions of War and Peace (something to do with "overlapping dimensions") when I hear any literary waffle. I've got to get one of those bags!

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